Thai Fish Curry - Choo Chee Curry
Servings: 6
Calories: 370 kcal
Thai Coconut Fish Curry is one of the quickest dinner recipes you’ll make. It requires almost no prep but delivers amazing flavor. Flaky cod is gently cooked in a vibrant sauce with flavors of red chilies, lime leaves, and coconut. Creamy coconut milk perfectly balances the spice of the sauce, which tastes best when absorbed by a bowl full of jasmine rice.
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Ingredients
- 3 tablespoon Thai Choo Chee (Chu Chee) Curry Paste preferably Maesri or Mae Ploy brand [See Note 1]
- 1 ½ cups coconut milk (about ¾ can), preferably Aroy D or Chaokoh brand
- 1 tablespoon coconut oil
- 1 ½ lbs. firm fish fillets (e.g. cod, haddock, mahi mahi, salmon) cut into 2-inch pieces - ⅔ kg
- 4 tsp fish sauce more to taste
- 1 Tbsp brown sugar or palm sugar (to taste)
- 2 tsp lime juice
- 4 lime leaves chiffonade cut (sliced into very thin slivers) [See Note 2]
Instructions
Stovetop
- Heat curry paste, ½ cup of coconut milk, and coconut oil in a large heavy-bottomed saute pan over medium heat until boiling.
- Cook for about 1 to 2 minutes, stirring frequently. The mixture will be bubbly and fragrant. Use a splatter screen if desired.
- Add fish, fish sauce, palm sugar or brown sugar, lime juice, and remaining coconut milk. Swirl the pan to coat the fish with the sauce. If the sauce is too thick, add a couple more tablespoons of coconut milk or water.
- Cover and cook on low heat for 10 minutes or until fish is cooked. (Do not stir the dish, since the fish is very fragile). About 2 minutes before the fish is done, sprinkle the lime leaves onto the curry.
- Taste and adjust with more fish sauce, brown sugar, or lime juice.
- Remove pan from heat to prevent the fish from overcooking.
- Serve with Jasmine rice.
Instant Pot Pressure Cooker
- Select Saute mode and stir in choo chee curry paste and ½ cup of coconut milk until mixture is bubbly, about a minute or two.
- Press Cancel. Add coconut oil and stir for about 30 seconds.
- Stir in remaining coconut milk. Add fish pieces and stir gently, coating the fish with the sauce.
- Close the Instant Pot and pressure cook on Low Pressure for 3 minutes. [See Note 3]
- Do a Quick Release of pressure (QR) and open the Instant Pot. [Read More: The Different Pressure Release Methods]
- Add in fish sauce, brown sugar, lime juice, and lime leaves.
- Stir and allow the ingredients to heat in the residual heat or select Saute and heat through for about 30 seconds. (Be sure not to overcook the fish).
- Taste and adjust with more fish sauce, brown sugar or lime juice.
- Serve with Instant Pot Jasmine Rice.
Notes
- Use a splatter screen if necessary, in the first step, to guard against coconut milk splatters.
- Thai curries are generally eaten with rice. If you're not planning on eating the curry with rice, you might need to adjust the salt by reducing the quantity of fish sauce.
- Choo chee curry is supposed to be thick. If you like more sauce, add more coconut milk. To maintain the same spice level, add more curry paste too.
- [Note 1] If you can't locate choo chee curry paste, substitute red curry paste (Maesri or Mae Ploy brands preferred).
- [Note 2] Lime leaves are also referred to as k-lime, makrut or kaffir lime leaves.
- [Note 3] If your Instant Pot does not have the low pressure option, pressure cook on High Pressure for 1 or 2 minutes, depending on the size of the fish pieces.
Nutrition
Serving: 1 serving | Calories: 370 kcal | Carbohydrates: 7 g | Protein: 44 g | Fat: 16 g | Saturated Fat: 12 g | Polyunsaturated Fat: 1 g | Monounsaturated Fat: 1 g | Cholesterol: 98 mg | Sodium: 1107 mg | Fiber: 1 g | Sugar: 7 g
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